Any Suggestions On Protecting Our Guns
 

There is no doubt flooding on its way for some of us! How best to protect our collection assuming there is indoor flooding~~ Eric

It would be trite to say take them and leave, but more constructively:

I keep my pistols in silicone impregnated gun socks, which help ward off humidity. They won't help much if things get soaked, but they have helped collections through fires where water was used to extinguish the flames.

I keep a dehumidifier running in my gun safe room, and a goldenrod inside the safe.

If there is any chance for salt water exposure, you do need to get them out of there.

Marc

I believe for short time a nylon sock in a zip-lock bag! Then there is the holster issue that is probobly more vulnerable~ Tks

Obvious advice, but if your safe(s) is/are in a "flood zone", take the stuff out and store higher!

If you are leaving, take it with you.

Should flooding happen regularly or often, relocate to a higher floor or put legs under the safe; or move!

The worst is the humidity and heat! I would put my leather in multible plastic trash bags! In Florida we have the a/c on all the time and 2 generators just in case! I have no idea how anything survived the trenches!

I live, for the time being, in Ca. ....water is only available in 20oz bottles, just don't spill any on your guns and you should be OK.......but I do miss long hot showers

long hot showers..God's gift to mankind.

Maybe instead of a gas line we pipe you all the water you need!

I've lived in, and loved the desert all life, but I am ready for a green lawn again......not sure of the snow of my new home in S. Dakota......how do you find your fired brass when out shooting?

You find it when you mow the yard in the spring, normally when they fly through a window. :o

As for the storage question: I would look into those waterproof storage containers they sell on the "prepper/survivalist" web sites. Some of them are made to be buried in the ground, so they should hold up well to any water related situation. Just need to make sure they are secured somehow, it would be a real downer if your collection got washed out in the ocean. :eek:

Pistols are easy. Only a small dry space is needed.

Some people collect those big machine guns, and have a few hundred rifles in home. Those will be hard to move around, if flooding.

If you are considering below ground, use a casket!

I've never considered a flooding, as so far (touch wood) the area where I live is not likely that it'll ever get flooded.
Anyway I keep most of my guns in a biggish safe in my "bunker", that's what my wife calls our cellar sort of thing from where I'm writing now; well, if you've ever seen the film "Meet the Parents" my "bunker" is a bit like Jack's cellar, and the funny thing is that I have a cat too (no he's not called Jinx, is a female cat called "SOFIA")

:)


Sergio

If you don't have a second floor or attic, put them on top of and on the upper shelves of your refrigerator.

Years ago a cold water hose to the washer broke flooding our entire home. My lugers and leather were still packed in the Rubbermade blue containers. Saved them all and is great for my leather holster storage~

Well, first don't always buy the weatherman's hype! I'm 10 miles north of Columbia SC, and by this time we were supposed to be enduring "catastrophic" rainfall and a Biblical level of flooding not seen in 200 years......my driveway is barely wet.....uh huh.

The Weather Channel lives on doom, the more doom the greater their audience and more sponcers! Try our own weather service~~http://www.weather.gov/

But Eric......US Gov't weather service WANTS your guns to rust! :evilgrin:

Not Only Mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well they aren't getting mine!!!

They're surely trying hard, lot of "gun extremists" here too, they believe they can create a gun-free Utopia where violent crime doesn't happen and nobody ever gets hurt.

Let's kee the fingers crossed.


Best,


Sergio

They are living in a fantasy world!!!!

Eric

I don't want to interfere with the politics of your country, but thanks to the Net I'm following what media say about the last mass shooting and President Obama's words and I don't always agree with them at all especially with the latter , but I found this picture that I'd like to share if you don't mind in your own thread.

All the best

Sergio

No truer words! I miss my old hero! Our best president in that century~~~~!!!!

In our recent shooting, how come only the bad guys had guns???? Shame On Someone!!!!!!!

FWIK California has one of the most restictive gun laws, and even if all guns were banned these b*****d couldn't be stopped, nothing can stop these people that want to kill, if they don't have a gun they would probably use a bomb or a knife or God knows what.
IMHO

amen!

I believe any federal building is a gun free zone, and bringing guns to a gun free zone is illegal. The result is that everybody who obeyed the law was a sitting duck, just waiting to be shot by those who didn't obey the law. What a surprise this must be to the lawmakers.

The (so called) gun free zones are prime targets for sure, and it's about time to do away with them. I haven't kept tabs, but I would say that the vast majority of the mass shootings have happened in these "gun free zones". Try doing it at a mud race in Alabama, or a rodeo in Texas. You would probably see the perp going down in seconds, then tied to a tree and used for target practice.

The sign should say, "Gun Free Zone, Enter At Your Own Risk"

First of all I don't want to interfere with your Country's business, and I wouldn't wand to talk about things I' not prepared enough, BUT I really can't understand President Obama tears of the other day.

After all, if Im not wrong during his administration the States have exported more guns than in the previous years.

Only one more year too long!!!!

Even longer than that Eric... it is a year and two weeks until our next presidential inauguration day... seems like an eternity to me... :(

John, The world is getting scary!!

This thread has somehow degenerated into a political discussion on gun control...Not how to save guns from water damage... :rolleyes:

Richard, Thats ok! My purpose is to get our friends talking!! No hard rules in any of my threads ~ Protection of guns in every form is the issue! Eric

That's a political discussion. If you want to talk politics, ask your congressman why 13,365 people died in 2010 as a result of drunk drivers and no meaningful legislation has come of it. :rolleyes:

US Bureau Of Transportation

http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/ri...ing/index.html

Why aren't they cracking down on drunk drivers??? They kill more every week than guns do all year.